Author Topic: Why arent Death Row instrumental albums available?? (Read 314 times)

eastcoast timbs · « **on:** May 16, 2006, 08:27:53 AM »

I been looking for years for the instrumental albums of Chronic, Doggystyle, All Eyez On Me, Makaveli etc....but they dont seem to exist. I can find a couple songs from each album but that's about it. What's the deal yo?

Petey · « **Reply #1 on:** May 16, 2006, 09:36:19 AM »

they would rather you buy the single AND the album...but remember were talking pre 1997.

the internet hip hop scene wasnt as developed and folks actually bought singles and the instrumentals were almost always on the b side of the single...also instrumental cds werent standard fare back then either.

eastcoast timbs · « **Reply #2 on:** May 16, 2006, 10:25:12 AM »

But I got instrumental albums for Ready to Die(1994), Cuban Linx(95),The Infamous(95), 36 Chambers(93) among others

M Dogg™ · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2006, 10:30:39 AM »

In the west, they were not as big into mixtapes back then as in the east. So in the east, DJs would request instrumentals, and labels would give them out because they knew that at that time, mix tapes were huge for artist to be heard on the streets. In the west, they had basically featured each other on each other's albums. So you'd heard Snoop on Dre's album, Mack 10 on Ice Cubes album, Coolio on WC's albums, and so on. So in the west, you got the instrumental on the single, but not of the album.